“If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.” IfsChristianDesireBearsCreaturesWorshipAccountsCreatorNeighborFleshOrthodoxProvisionGrudgeTransitory Author:Maximus the Confessor
“A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, 'O' God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee'?” LongDesireNightWealthPrayerPrayingWorshipSlaveTheePerceiveAwakeParadiseAll NightLong LifeOur PrayersPonderingPraying To GodWorship GodWorshippers Author:Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
“A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.” FeelsArtDesireCreativityEventsPoetWorshipImpulseAweWorks Of ArtTransformedPassiveRiteProvoked Author:W. H. Auden
“Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.” IfsMeanRealSelfShowsFormDesireEvilHumilityWorshipDelusionReverenceWipeHarborsGood ThoughtsHumblingReal Self Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“Like a goddess on her azure hill, the star of my ambition, the mistress of my dream; a thing apart, that we can worship, but not touch; a wild desire, that, in the madness of the thought, soars higher in its dignity, and leaves me weeping in the dust.” DreamDesireStarsHigherAmbitionWorshipDignityMadnessDustHillsGoddessSoarLeaving MeMistressWeepingMy AmbitionAzure Book:Imogen: And Other Poems Source: Imogen: And Other Poems
“Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.” MenDesirePovertyWorshipPraiseTerror Book:Alfred Hagart's household Source: Alfred Hagart's household
“Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.” SoulBodySpiritualDesireChristReligiousBreakWorshipCastsTyrannySelfishnessFoundersMarvelousReligious FaithDominance Author:Alfred William Howitt
“To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.” MenYearsDesirePassionHeavenTeachMastersFameWorshipAnd LoveDeedsNobleSubtleMaidsMaidensNoble Deeds Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson